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La puzlo Esperanto

This course introduces you to the main language elements of Esperanto and helps you understand how to use them to put sentences together. (By "language elements" we mean words and parts of words.)

As it happens, creating a sentence in Esperanto is something like piecing together a puzzle. You have certain "pieces" (the language elements) which you have to carefully examine in order to understand how to put them together and construct something meaningful.

This course places an emphasis on Esperanto word-building, which is a little different to word-building in other languages. At first it can feel a little strange creating words like, for example, "leg/em/ul/o" (= a person who likes to read) and "mal/ferm/it/a" (= open). But, little by little, you will notice how ingenious the building system of the "Lingvo Internacia" really is.